September 29, 2025 • 10 mins
If you were standing in Michael Dell’s bedroom, what would you ask him? That’s just one of the wild stories Bama Brown shares in this laugh-out-loud, thought-provoking episode of The Bama Brown Experience, joined by the ever-sharp Biggest Puma from The SportsCave. From the jaw-dropping tales of missed investment opportunities with tech mogul Michael Dell to a hilarious hotdog moment that proves even billionaires sneak snacks behind their spouses’ backs, this episode dives deep into the absurd, the reflective, and the downright bizarre.
Key Highlights:
Key Highlights:
- A breakdown of the Forbes Richest List, with surprising shakeups and eyebrow-raising omissions.
- Personal stories involving Michael Dell that will leave you wondering how close Bama came to being a tech tycoon.
- A bonehead crime involving a box of rice and a family feud gone way too far.
- A look at global bathroom tech—QR codes for toilet paper in China vs. coin-operated stalls in Mexico.
- The Top 10 Life Regrets list that sparks real talk about missed chances, fading friendships, and the freedom of not caring what others think.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Well, hi, everybody, Bama Brown when you're in the Badam
Brown experience along with the Big Cat Puma with the
Sports Cave, and you guys are going to be live
tomorrow night right right here.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
We've got plenty to talk about with Micah's return to
Dallas yesterday. But we are we taking Mondays off now
that football is back so we can all watch Monday
night football together. But we will be back tomorrow night
over on YouTube at Sports Cave Live. But if you
missed any of you last week's shows, you can always
get them in audio form. Anywhere you get your podcast,
(00:35):
just search the Sports Cave with the Biggest Puma.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
So everybody's talking about it's number one sports show in
the whole wide world. You want to start out, let's
start out with the Forbes Richest List. I saw this
and you and I hadn't had a chance to talk
about this. You were number six on here, and that's
pretty awesome.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Man.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Ready to go.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
I've lost a couple of spots I was here.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
So I'm just good. This is per Forbes I saw.
I'm just gonna read it out here because they're some
debate about who was number one, back and forth. They
did say. Bill Gates did a big bunch of charity donations,
so he's he actually didn't make the list for the
first time in thirty.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Four years, or didn't make the list.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
No, she didn't either. They both just had donated. But
he was fourteenth, so I mean he's still don't worry,
Bill Gates still doing pretty well. We'll started, let's just
go from one down to ten and I'll just give
you the This is in billions, by the way, billion dollars.
Elon number one with four twenty eight. Larry Ellison was
(01:36):
second with two hundred and seventy six.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Oh, Larry Ellison about to be in charge of TikTok.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Yeah, he owns that. He owns all of Kuwai. He
the whole island. He owns ninety percent of Kuwahi.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
What's this company? What it's Oracle right, Oracle?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yeah, he's the Oracle guy. Zuckerberg was third at two
fifty three. Bezos is fourth, which I don't know if a
zacher or not. But once again, I'm just telling about forbeslift.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I call Jos was ahead of zuck.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
I did too, and I thought they both. I thought
he was number one, but it changes because of stock
prices anyway. I mean, I'm just giving you the we're
round and off. How about that? Bezos was a two
forty one once again brillion Larry Page Google guy. He's
one seventy nine. Sergey Brand who's the other Google guy.
(02:27):
He's won sixty six. Steve Balmer, Microsoft head of Microsoft.
He is one fifty three. Jensen Hong Hangna Video. It's
his deal, one fifty one, Warren Buffett one hundred and
fifty b. And at ninth, number ten Michael Dell with
one twenty nine B. And so Michael were top ten, also.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Rumored to be involved in the TikTok acquisition.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Might be on the board for whatever that new.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Right he was, I've got two stores of Michael Dell.
I was doing a charity deal with the Lions Club.
I can't remember which one it was. I want to
say Elgin maybe anyway, and the guy told me he
had the head guys of the Lions Club there, and
he said, we had this kid come in here, had
(03:17):
his car title. He wanted to borrow twenty thousand dollars
and we're all kind of yeah, that's okay. And it
was Michael deal. And he said four of us still
work for a living. We could have been the original
investors of Dell Computer. And then uh, when I lived
in Houston and I had an office in Houston, the
guy across I was in a single office by myself
(03:39):
at Northaulston and the guy acrossed the hall from me
in a little complex he had he did computers. And
he told me, he said, non, there's this kid up
there at UT. This is how long ago this was.
Here's a key a kid at UT building computers in
his dorm room and he's looking for investors. Michael his
name is Michael Dell. And I went, oh, yeah, he's
buying weed of it, you know, Yeah, yeah, I bet
(04:02):
he's build. So there, that's twice i'd heard about a
dale where I could have got in the beginning. So
it's that's all.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
The only the only crossing with Michael deal. I've never
met him or been in the same room. But I
had a buddy who graduated went to UT, and after
his it was a graduation party, and afterwards we might
or might not have ended up doing some swimming at
one of Michael Dell's private docks out there. Also closes
(04:35):
might have or might not have been optional at theme.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Oh cool, Yeah it was.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
He was summer work for for Michael and had the
had the gate combo to get us into the private
dock out there.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
That's cool. I have a buddy of mine that did
all his remodel and he'd only met Michael twice and
he worked with his wife. Says she's wonderful, and he
did remodels around their house and just getting the he said,
you ain't meant to be that good a carpenter. But
the security was unbelievable what you had to go through, uh,
to get the security clearance. And then he said, uh.
(05:08):
He called me one time he said, I'm in Michael
Dale's bedroom. I'm standing there, you know, And I said,
is it pretty big? He goes, yeah, it's that's the
dumbest thing you've ever asked me. No, it's a double
why by the way, you idiot? But that was pretty good.
And then my friend one more Michael Dale's story, because
this is a great story and nobody will ever tell
(05:29):
you this. My friend trained his wife and running the marathon.
My buddy was a Olympic runner guy and stuff. He
owned run Techs and the shoe store. And then he yeah,
so he, Uh, my friend told me he went somewhere
with them and she they were sitting together, and she
(05:51):
got up and left, and Michael got up and with
a hot dog vendor. And he went over the hot
dog vendor and bought a hot dog and ate it,
looking back to see if she was going to catch him.
Get down. He's number ten on the list of richest guys.
But everybody's got a boss man, think about it. Catch him.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Smart smart smart.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
That's pretty funny, all right, Uh you wanta let's do
a bonehead.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Oh, hey have one.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Here's Devonne Butler. He's eighteen. Uh, he's from Saint Louis. Uh.
He and his cousin got in a fight. These roomies.
They got in a fight and he ended up shooting
his cousin over a box of rice.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Oh yeah, so.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
At least it was something important. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Look, me and me and my college roommate got in
quite a bit of fights over hamburger, helper hroni. But uh,
gunplay never became involved. I can it got it got
pretty heated, but not never quite that much.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Never shot anybody over a box of rice anyway, or
you know, box chicken like a hit public restroom in China. Uh,
you go into this public restroom in China now and
you have to scan a QR code and watch commercials
in order to get toilet paper.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Well, compared to Mexico, where you have to pay like,
you know, a quarter, you pay twenty five cents for
a couple a couple of sheets of it.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
I think I'd rather watch the commercials at least.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
I don't like where we're going, Bama. I don't know
the future. The future freaks me out.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Freaking whoors everywhere. Los Angeles and San Francisco and New York.
This is if you're wanting to start to work out.
This tells you. The increase on what's the hot thing
pilates is up two hundred and thirty seven percent in
those three cities. That's where they did the check. Now.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Yeah, I hear from my roommate that pilates will kick
your ass if you're not prepared for it.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
That's yeah, absolutely hot pilates were up two hundred and
fifty percent. And then Matt pilates are up two hundred
and thirty percent. Uh, I like the pilates that I
got at Wheros, Mexico. Yeah, give me the plates and chips.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
They're making me hungry already.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Yeah, plants that ain't happening. Have we got one time
for one more? I thought this was pretty good. Uh,
here are the top ten regrets. Now this was a
site where people got, you know, listser regrets they had.
I'm just gonna run down from ten to one. Here.
Uh a different career true, Trusting the wrong person, Yeah,
(08:39):
good one.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Letting friendships fade. That's a big one for me. I've
let some folks go ash. I shouldn't have number seven,
all of us blowing money. Oh yeah, number six, you've
done this, But I not traveling. I have not traveled
as much as I want, and you have traveled, and
I'm proud of you for that.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
I always i'd read paid for experiences than a bar tab.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Yeah that's good. You're you're good about that. Number five
was not saying how they really felt people. Okay.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Struggled with that one personally. Yeah, you've always, in my opinion,
known loudly.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Things that you have said to me that I cried
after we're done. I was like, Uh, Number four, relationships
too long. The friendship you're in it, you hang in
that relationship way too long. Number three, no exercise, it's everybody.
(09:39):
Number two saving money. These are the top ten regrets,
and number one caring what people think that now. That
one I've been pretty good on. I have never really
give a ship what anybody thought. And you can tell
by this show the way I address most of my career.
So there you go. All right, thank you for listening.
You got you got the the sports Cave tonight, but
(10:01):
you're live tomorrow night. But you listening tonight too, What
the hell? Come on?
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Yeah, absolutely, come hang out with us, all right, man,
Well, hi, everybody, Bama Brown when you're in the Badam
Brown experience along with the Big Cat Puma with the
Sports Cave, and you guys are going to be live
tomorrow night right right here.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
We've got plenty to talk about with Micah's return to
Dallas yesterday. But we are we taking Mondays off now
that football is back so we can all watch Monday
night football together. But we will be back tomorrow night
over on YouTube at Sports Cave Live. But if you
missed any of you last week's shows, you can always
get them in audio form. Anywhere you get your podcast,
(00:35):
just search the Sports Cave with the Biggest Puma.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
So everybody's talking about it's number one sports show in
the whole wide world. You want to start out, let's
start out with the Forbes Richest List. I saw this
and you and I hadn't had a chance to talk
about this. You were number six on here, and that's
pretty awesome.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Man.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Ready to go.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
I've lost a couple of spots I was here.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
So I'm just good. This is per Forbes I saw.
I'm just gonna read it out here because they're some
debate about who was number one, back and forth. They
did say. Bill Gates did a big bunch of charity donations,
so he's he actually didn't make the list for the
first time in thirty.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Four years, or didn't make the list.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
No, she didn't either. They both just had donated. But
he was fourteenth, so I mean he's still don't worry,
Bill Gates still doing pretty well. We'll started, let's just
go from one down to ten and I'll just give
you the This is in billions, by the way, billion dollars.
Elon number one with four twenty eight. Larry Ellison was
(01:36):
second with two hundred and seventy six.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Oh, Larry Ellison about to be in charge of TikTok.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Yeah, he owns that. He owns all of Kuwai. He
the whole island. He owns ninety percent of Kuwahi.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
What's this company? What it's Oracle right, Oracle?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yeah, he's the Oracle guy. Zuckerberg was third at two
fifty three. Bezos is fourth, which I don't know if a
zacher or not. But once again, I'm just telling about forbeslift.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I call Jos was ahead of zuck.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
I did too, and I thought they both. I thought
he was number one, but it changes because of stock
prices anyway. I mean, I'm just giving you the we're
round and off. How about that? Bezos was a two
forty one once again brillion Larry Page Google guy. He's
one seventy nine. Sergey Brand who's the other Google guy.
(02:27):
He's won sixty six. Steve Balmer, Microsoft head of Microsoft.
He is one fifty three. Jensen Hong Hangna Video. It's
his deal, one fifty one, Warren Buffett one hundred and
fifty b. And at ninth, number ten Michael Dell with
one twenty nine B. And so Michael were top ten, also.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Rumored to be involved in the TikTok acquisition.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Might be on the board for whatever that new.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Right he was, I've got two stores of Michael Dell.
I was doing a charity deal with the Lions Club.
I can't remember which one it was. I want to
say Elgin maybe anyway, and the guy told me he
had the head guys of the Lions Club there, and
he said, we had this kid come in here, had
(03:17):
his car title. He wanted to borrow twenty thousand dollars
and we're all kind of yeah, that's okay. And it
was Michael deal. And he said four of us still
work for a living. We could have been the original
investors of Dell Computer. And then uh, when I lived
in Houston and I had an office in Houston, the
guy across I was in a single office by myself
(03:39):
at Northaulston and the guy acrossed the hall from me
in a little complex he had he did computers. And
he told me, he said, non, there's this kid up
there at UT. This is how long ago this was.
Here's a key a kid at UT building computers in
his dorm room and he's looking for investors. Michael his
name is Michael Dell. And I went, oh, yeah, he's
buying weed of it, you know, Yeah, yeah, I bet
(04:02):
he's build. So there, that's twice i'd heard about a
dale where I could have got in the beginning. So
it's that's all.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
The only the only crossing with Michael deal. I've never
met him or been in the same room. But I
had a buddy who graduated went to UT, and after
his it was a graduation party, and afterwards we might
or might not have ended up doing some swimming at
one of Michael Dell's private docks out there. Also closes
(04:35):
might have or might not have been optional at theme.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Oh cool, Yeah it was.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
He was summer work for for Michael and had the
had the gate combo to get us into the private
dock out there.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
That's cool. I have a buddy of mine that did
all his remodel and he'd only met Michael twice and
he worked with his wife. Says she's wonderful, and he
did remodels around their house and just getting the he said,
you ain't meant to be that good a carpenter. But
the security was unbelievable what you had to go through, uh,
to get the security clearance. And then he said, uh.
(05:08):
He called me one time he said, I'm in Michael
Dale's bedroom. I'm standing there, you know, And I said,
is it pretty big? He goes, yeah, it's that's the
dumbest thing you've ever asked me. No, it's a double
why by the way, you idiot? But that was pretty good.
And then my friend one more Michael Dale's story, because
this is a great story and nobody will ever tell
(05:29):
you this. My friend trained his wife and running the marathon.
My buddy was a Olympic runner guy and stuff. He
owned run Techs and the shoe store. And then he yeah,
so he, Uh, my friend told me he went somewhere
with them and she they were sitting together, and she
(05:51):
got up and left, and Michael got up and with
a hot dog vendor. And he went over the hot
dog vendor and bought a hot dog and ate it,
looking back to see if she was going to catch him.
Get down. He's number ten on the list of richest guys.
But everybody's got a boss man, think about it. Catch him.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Smart smart smart.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
That's pretty funny, all right, Uh you wanta let's do
a bonehead.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Oh, hey have one.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Here's Devonne Butler. He's eighteen. Uh, he's from Saint Louis. Uh.
He and his cousin got in a fight. These roomies.
They got in a fight and he ended up shooting
his cousin over a box of rice.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Oh yeah, so.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
At least it was something important. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Look, me and me and my college roommate got in
quite a bit of fights over hamburger, helper hroni. But uh,
gunplay never became involved. I can it got it got
pretty heated, but not never quite that much.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Never shot anybody over a box of rice anyway, or
you know, box chicken like a hit public restroom in China. Uh,
you go into this public restroom in China now and
you have to scan a QR code and watch commercials
in order to get toilet paper.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Well, compared to Mexico, where you have to pay like,
you know, a quarter, you pay twenty five cents for
a couple a couple of sheets of it.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
I think I'd rather watch the commercials at least.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
I don't like where we're going, Bama. I don't know
the future. The future freaks me out.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Freaking whoors everywhere. Los Angeles and San Francisco and New York.
This is if you're wanting to start to work out.
This tells you. The increase on what's the hot thing
pilates is up two hundred and thirty seven percent in
those three cities. That's where they did the check. Now.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Yeah, I hear from my roommate that pilates will kick
your ass if you're not prepared for it.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
That's yeah, absolutely hot pilates were up two hundred and
fifty percent. And then Matt pilates are up two hundred
and thirty percent. Uh, I like the pilates that I
got at Wheros, Mexico. Yeah, give me the plates and chips.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
They're making me hungry already.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Yeah, plants that ain't happening. Have we got one time
for one more? I thought this was pretty good. Uh,
here are the top ten regrets. Now this was a
site where people got, you know, listser regrets they had.
I'm just gonna run down from ten to one. Here.
Uh a different career true, Trusting the wrong person, Yeah,
(08:39):
good one.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Letting friendships fade. That's a big one for me. I've
let some folks go ash. I shouldn't have number seven,
all of us blowing money. Oh yeah, number six, you've
done this, But I not traveling. I have not traveled
as much as I want, and you have traveled, and
I'm proud of you for that.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
I always i'd read paid for experiences than a bar tab.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Yeah that's good. You're you're good about that. Number five
was not saying how they really felt people. Okay.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Struggled with that one personally. Yeah, you've always, in my opinion,
known loudly.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Things that you have said to me that I cried
after we're done. I was like, Uh, Number four, relationships
too long. The friendship you're in it, you hang in
that relationship way too long. Number three, no exercise, it's everybody.
(09:39):
Number two saving money. These are the top ten regrets,
and number one caring what people think that now. That
one I've been pretty good on. I have never really
give a ship what anybody thought. And you can tell
by this show the way I address most of my career.
So there you go. All right, thank you for listening.
You got you got the the sports Cave tonight, but
(10:01):
you're live tomorrow night. But you listening tonight too, What
the hell? Come on?
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Yeah, absolutely, come hang out with us, all right, man,
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